Municipal · Texas

City of Emory

Emory is a city in Rains County, Texas, United States. As of the 2020 census, Emory had a population of 1,251. It is the county seat of Rains County. Previously known as Springville, the city and county are named after Emory Rains, who was a legislator from the area. Rains was the author of the Homestead Law of Texas, which was later used as a model for the protection of homesteads throughout the United States. Special legislation passed to create Rains County called for the citizens to vote on the location of the county seat and for that selected town to be named Emory.

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Reference data (Census of Governments 2022)

Census ID (PID6): 191626
FIPS state: 48
FIPS county: 379
FIPS place: 24216
Census record name: CITY OF EMORY
Mailing address: PO BOX 100, EMORY 75440